Wagon.



PATENTED AUG. 6. 1907.

J. H. HOUSWORTH.

WAGON.

APPLIUATION I'ILED 00T.1B,

PATENT @FFIQE.

JOSEPH H. HOUSWORTH, OF GILMER, TEXAS.-

WAGON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed October 16,1906. Serial No- 339,273.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, .losnrI-t H. H0 USWOR'IH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Gilmer, in the county of Upshur and State of Texas,have invented new and useful Improvements in Wagons, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention provides an end-gate for wagons and other vehicles, whichis arranged to facilitate the 1111-.

loading of grain, cotton-seed, and other bulk material, which is handledwith a scoop or similar implement.

Means are also provided by the invention whereby bulk material may bedirected from a vehicle-body immediately into a bin or other place,without the waste which is common at the removal or opening of anordinary end-gate.

The invention also contemplates an endgate arrangement which will serveas a feed-box for the draftanimals.

When read in connection with the following descrip tion, the details ofconstruction and. arrangement of parts contemplated by this inventionwill be apparent from the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof,wherein a preferable embodiment of the invention is disclosed, forpurposes of illustration.

Like reference characters refer to correspondin g parts in the severalviews of the drawings, whereof Figure 1 is a side view of a wagon-bodyhaving my improved end-gate and supplementary body attached thereto;Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof; Fig. 3 is a bottomview; and Fig. 4 is an end view.

Having more particular reference to the drawings, 5 indicates awagon-body, having a cross-piece 6 attached to the end of the bottom andprojecting beyond the Sides, and having its sides formed at their rearends with longitudinal slots 7. A supplemental body is attached to therear end of the wagon-body 5, the supplemental body comprising sides 8,supported on members 9. Members 9 project forward of sides 8, outside ofthe wagon-body, over the ends of cross-piece 6, and are connected by abolt-rod 10, which passes under and engages the under part of thewagon-body, whereby the supplemental frame or body is supported in aposition slanting rearwardly upward. Rod 10 is headed on one end, asshown at 11, and is screw-threaded on the other end 12, where it passesthrough a screw-threaded aperture in a clamp 13 attached to one ofmembers 9.

Passed through sides 8 are bolts 14, which are arranged for movement inslots 7 when loosened, and

which when tightened hold the supplemental body in position. By means ofadjustment of these bolts along the slots 7, either forwardly orrearwardly, the supplemental body can be tilted, as desired.

Attached to members 9 at their rear is a partial bottom 15, a spacebeing left between the end of the wagonbody and this bottom.

Depending from members 9, on each side of the supplemental body, andintermediate the end of the wagon-body and partial bottom 15, areapertured hangers 16, one of which is screw-threaded. These hangers arearranged to receive and hold a bolt-rod l7,

the screw-threaded end of which passes through the apcrturedscrew-threaded hanger 1G, and the other end of which is headed, as at18, and engages the other hanger.

Pivoted on bolt-rod 17 is an end-gate 19, having piv-- oted catches 20at or near its top, which are engageable with slots 21 in sides 8 forthe purpose of securing the end-gate in upright position. End-gate 19has attached thereto, intermediate its top and bottom, a downwardly andrearwardly slanting member 22, which, when the end-gate is in uprightposition, fills in the space between it and the partial bottom 15. Byendgate 15), member 22, partial bottom 15, and sides 8, a convenientfeed-box is formed. When the end-gate is swung backwardly anddownwardly, member 22 will also swing downwardly, discharging cobs andother remains of food of the draft animals, and the end-gate will reston partial bottom 15. In this position, the supplemental body forms achute which facilitates the 11nloading of the contents of the wagon.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A supplemental body for wagons comprising sides, a partial bottom atthe rear thereof, an end-gate forward, and a member attached to theend-gate and filling the space between the partial bottom and theend-gate, for the purpose described.

2. In combination with a wagon-body having a laterallyprojectingcr0ss-piecc at its rear, a supplemental body therefor comprisingforward]yprojecting supporting-menibers resting on said cross-piece, anda member connecting said supporting members near their forward ends andextending beneath the wagondiody, whereby the supplemental body issupported.

In testimony whereof, I ailix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEPH H. IIOUSWORTH. Witnesses S. C. Han'r, W. L. WiLLnnonn.

